This book was recognised by the Foreword Indies Book of the Year Award. It was recognised by the Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation.

There are 384 pages in this book. This book was published 2005 by Allen & Unwin .

Lilli Thal, historian and novelist, established herself on the German children's book market with her prize-winning series of humorous crime stories about Inspector Pillermeier. In Mimus she leads her readers into the dark and colourful Middle Ages. Lilli Thal lives in Southern Germany with her husband, two children and a dog. About the translator:. John Brownjohn has translated many books and screenplays into English from German and French and has been much praised for his deft and elegant use of language: 'seamless and idiomatic, without a single clumsy construction. It's a remarkable achievement to sustain a breakneck pace and never once sound as if the book were written in anything other than English'.